The X-men run missions and work together with the NYPD, striving to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants. When it comes to a fight, they won't back down from protecting those who need their help.
Haven presents itself as a humanitarian organization for activists, leaders, and high society, yet mutants are the secret leaders working to protect and serve their kind. Behind the scenes they bring their goals into reality.
From the time when mutants became known to the world, SUPER was founded as a black-ops division of the CIA in an attempt to classify, observe, and learn more about this new and rising threat.
The Syndicate works to help bring mutantkind to the forefront of the world. They work from the shadows, a beacon of hope for mutants, but a bane to mankind. With their guiding hand, humanity will finally find extinction.
Since the existence of mutants was first revealed in the nineties, the world has become a changed place. Whether they're genetic misfits or the next stage in humanity's evolution, there's no denying their growing numbers, especially in hubs like New York City. The NYPD has a division devoted to mutant related crimes. Super-powered vigilantes help to maintain the peace. Those who style themselves as Homo Superior work to tear society apart for rebuilding in their own image.
MRO is an intermediate to advanced writing level original character, original plot X-Men RPG. We've been open and active since October of 2005. You can play as a mutant, human, or Adapted— one of the rare humans who nullify mutant powers by their very existence. Goodies, baddies, and neutrals are all welcome.
Short Term Plots:Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
The Fountain of Youth
A chemical serum has been released that's shaving a few years off of the population. In some cases, found to be temporary, and in others...?
MRO MOVES WITH CURRENT TIME: What month and year it is now in real life, it's the same for MRO, too.
Fuegogrande: "Fuegogrande" player of The Ranger, Ion, Rhia, and Null
Neopolitan: "Aly" player of Rebecca Grey, Stephanie Graves, Marisol Cervantes, Vanessa Bookman, Chrysanthemum Van Hart, Sabine Sang, Eupraxia
Ongoing Plots
Magic and Mystics
After the events of the 2020 Harvest Moon and the following Winter Solstice, magic has started manifesting in the MROvere! With the efforts of the Welldrinker Cult, people are being converted into Mystics, a species of people genetically disposed to be great conduits for magical energy.
The Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
Adapteds
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtly... without the x-gene.
Atlanteans
The lost city of Atlantis has been found! Refugees from this undersea mutant dystopia have started to filter in to New York as citizens and businessfolk. You may make one as a player character of run into one on the street.
Got a plot in mind?
MRO plots are player-created the Mods facilitate and organize the big ones, but we get the ideas from you. Do you have a plot in mind, and want to know whether it needs Mod approval? Check out our plot guidelines.
"No!" His voice cracked hoarsely as he tossed the word over his shoulder at Svetlana. "No, I can't touch you. I'm not safe anymore." He wailed as he hit the bottom of the stairs and made a sharp turn into the abandoned clinic. Behind the gurneys, 3.2174 meters away, there was an empty space of wall that looked like a good place to huddle.
With his crazy sight problems, he knew how far it was, but still couldn't avoid knocking into one of the rolling beds and knocking it over with a clatter. He could see the distance between his hand and the falling bed, but still couldn't catch it.
Jude sat. Right where he was, exactly 1.12m from the wall with his back toward the stairwell, he just plopped down on his butt. The frenchman sniffled miserably and clutched the stiff sanitary pillow that had fallen from the gurney to his chest.
"*Je ne peux toucher n'importe qui plus."
He just wanted to be left alone, to be protected. Several triangles, 15.24 cm long popped into existence behind him, between him and the rest of the room. They hovered there green like a turtle shell.
>>"No! No, I can't touch you. I'm not safe anymore."
And he didn't even know half of it. Sveta frowned, desperate to catch him before he ran out and away from the Clinic; but he did not make it that far. He had some... kind of a problem with his sight? That was not her mutation. Was it someone else's? Or his own? But how? He slid down to sit on the floor.
>>"*Je ne peux toucher n'importe qui plus."
She had no idea what that meant, but she saw the triangle shell (well, that's new), and she definitely knew the feeling she saw on his face. Scared of getting close to people.
Sveta sat down outside the triangles.
"I know it hurts, Jude" she said quietly "Dat is what happens if I touch someone. I am sorry, I didn't... dis is all my fault. I should not have touched you. I thought you are human..." she frowned again, a sad little frown "It was my mistake. I am sorry, Jude. I'm so sorry..."
*italics are spoken in Russian* Thanks to Siren for the sig and avi!
"I told you zat I was psychic." The words sounded more bitter than triumphant.
With his back to Svetlana, Jude wiped his eyes and nose on the back side of his hand. "And…" And it was confession time. "It cannot be your fault. I knew zat you would kiss me. Oracle showed me a blonde kiss my power awake."
Jude closed his eyes and that was better. The world and the odd way that information trickled in all got swallowed up with blackness when he shut his eyes.
"Are you mad at me?" He sniffed in the most manly way possible. Nope. No child tears over here. Just manly runny noses.
>>"I told you zat I was psychic. And… It cannot be your fault. I knew zat you would kiss me. Oracle showed me a blonde kiss my power awake."
Sveta blinket. Thaaat was a lot of information at once. It was kind of hard to hear as he was turned away from her, but she still understood. Kind of.
"Psychic?" she wrinkled her nose "But... you are not. You have my powers. We boosted each other, you felt dat right?..."
Also.
"... and what do you mean you knew it? You... Jude, did you want me to kiss you? Is dat... is dat vat the dinner was for?"
>>"Are you mad at me?"
"Yes. A little." she nodded, more quietly "Jude, my powers are very, very dangerous. Someting bad could have happened. The two people who walked in, did you see dem?..."
*italics are spoken in Russian* Thanks to Siren for the sig and avi!
He had her powers? That wasn't something he had considered. "He showed me numbers of powers that could have been choosed." Jude was a lot less focused on correct grammar and a lot more focused on how to be a mutant. "Do you feel zis way… all ze time?"
Jude felt half crazed. First his head had HURT, then he had thought his heart would explode from beating so fast. None of that was helped when that heart was flooded by emotion and now… Now he was afraid to open his eyes because the world was made of math and that did not help his aching head.
The triangles faded slowly, the longer they talked.
"Of course I wanting you to kiss me." His anger flared as much at himself as at Svetlana. "As much as it was good to be safe to touch, I always wanted to be grown enough for you. When I find you dates, I am wishing I was that guy." If she had chosen a guy, a guy he could have approved of, maybe he could have moved on.
Now he would probably have to give up the idea of ever getting a real Svetlana kiss. He had pushed romance when he knew it had no chance of success, only a chance of power activation.
Jude tested his eyes by opening them and looking at the wall in front of him. Everything was blurry, but no longer was everything measurable or brain melting and besides, walls were easier to address than women.
Walls didn't try to dry his tears like a mother might and they never said how cute he was when he cringed or held adult conversations. Walls did not condescend on purpose or on accident.
He should have fallen in love with dry wall.
Instead, he cringed at the thought that he had hurt Kealey in his selfishness. "I saw." Any bit of hutzpah he had seemed drained out of him with that confession. Jude turned to look at Svetlana. "I won't touch nobody anymore."
>>"He showed me numbers of powers that could have been choosed. Do you feel zis way… all ze time?"
That... was, once again, kidn of hard to decipher, and also, made no sense. Who showed him the powers? And how could one choose his own mutation?...
"Yes, pretty much" she nodded. The buzz was constant... not as strong as right now, but it was always there.
>>"Of course I wanting you to kiss me. As much as it was good to be safe to touch, I always wanted to be grown enough for you. When I find you dates, I am wishing I was that guy."
An ocean of surprise and guilt washed over Svetlana. Jude was in love with her?! But... he was just a... what was he, exactly? A kid who used to be a grown-up, and acted like one, except when he was totally childish? It was so wrong on so many levels. Jude was the sweetest, strangest kid she knew, but in her eyes, no matter how he was thinking or feeling, he was still just a kid...
>>"I won't touch nobody anymore."
That's what I do.
"You can touch humans, or people who cancel powers" she offered quietly "And dere are mutations dat... Jude?"
The eyes. He had triangles in his eyes. Just like the triangles that had just dissolved.
"Dat's not my power." Sveta's eyes narrowed as she leaned closer to look "When I kissed you, dat was mine, de boost and all. But dis... de triangles, I am not doing dat. Jude, vat is happening to you?..."
*italics are spoken in Russian* Thanks to Siren for the sig and avi!
She started to list safe options for him. None of the lists included herself, he noticed with a frown. As soon as his mouth had turned down, she said his name in surprise. What? Was he not allowed to frown anymore?
She leaned closer.
He backed up.
Being close to her made his heart do little flips, no matter how much he told it to sit down and shut up.
"I don't have triangles." He didn't. Not anymore. Spending this much time with Svetlana had put him back on the path to a boosting power, but the physical marks of sharing Shin's mutation were left in his eyes. Of course, it was very hard to see his own eyes without a mirror of some kind.
"Is it possible to be allergic to mutation?" Maybe his body didn't react well to being a mutant. Jude scrubbed his eyes, the closest thing he could manage to massaging his achey brain. His sight was all clear again. What was happening to him? "I'm getting jitters."
>>"I don't have triangles. Is it possible to be allergic to mutation? I'm getting jitters."
He did have triangles. He rubbed his eyes. Sveta sat back to allow him space, and wrinkled her nose, thinking. I have been a mutant for almost two years, and I know nothing about being a mutant. Well, this sucks.
"I don't think you can be allergic to mutation" she shook her head "It is in your genes you can't be allergic to yourself... you would be dead."
He was not dead. Yet.
"Just... calm down." she sighed "We will figure tings out, okay? Just relax."
She sat back against the wall.
"So. I kiss you, you get my powers. Den, people come in, you get oder stuff. And now, are you having my powers again?" she glanced at him "Did you know dose people who came in?"
*italics are spoken in Russian* Thanks to Siren for the sig and avi!
The crunchy pillow, Jude hugged tighter to his chest. Svetlana didn't want him to panic. That more than anything made him want to panic.
"Do you not know zem?" His voice squeaked. Jude coughed and tried again. He touched his hand to his throat to make sure it wasn't swelling up or anything. "Sey moved in down ze hall. Mister Shin used to work at Full Circle and zey boths had Turkey Day withs us… before you move in, I guess."
That was weird to think that Svetty didn't know Shin or Kealey. They were both nice… usually. Thinking back to their ambush on his pathetic attempt at a doomed romance, maybe he would revise his assessment of them.
"I… I think I touch zem both." They wouldn't get sick because of him, would they? But Kealey was on the floor when they left… and Shin had been acting strange since… well, Shin always acted strange. "But I did not touch Svetty again." And yet, here he was practically bouncing in place because of Svetlana's power. He was just waiting for his power to hiccup into whatever it was going to do next.
"Is it your power on me or my power on me?" A thrill ran up his spine. His power. His. He had a power. "Should we go to the hospital?" His voice squeaked again. Maybe his throat really was closing up.
>>"Do you not know zem? Sey moved in down ze hall. Mister Shin used to work at Full Circle and zey boths had Turkey Day withs us… before you move in, I guess. I… I think I touch zem both."
So... they were mutants. And Jude touched them, and his powers just got weirder and weirder. That absolutely made no sense. They deifnitely looked sick, which could have been a side effect from the boosting, but that did not explain why Jude's abilities were acting up... hers never did that. Not on their own anyway.
>>"But I did not touch Svetty again. Is it your power on me or my power on me? Should we go to the hospital?"
"We are in a hospital" she reminded him, and smiled a little bit "Sort of. And I don't think we should go out yet. It is safer here. I have been with dese powers for more than a year, I learned it is not safe to go out if there is someting weird happening. If you have my powers, you could accidantally touch and boost someone, and.... very bad things happen." she added quietly.
"I tink we just should wait here for a bit. Calm down. See vat happens. Okay? And den I will call Maya and Sebastian. But they probably felt the boost anyway. Most of the city must have felt it..."
*italics are spoken in Russian* Thanks to Siren for the sig and avi!
They were in a hospital. Oh. Right. He tried not to feel too stupid for not realizing that, though, to be fair, in this hospital the doctor was out at the moment.
"Don't call zem." Jude was on his feet, his pillow left in a hurry on the ground. He was not doing the best job of calming down.
"I would wait if you want, but don't call eiser of zem." If she didn't want to touch him and also didn't want to hurt him, she had few options left to stop him. He could leave. "If you call, I am leaving." Jude smoothed the floor sitting wrinkles out of his suit. If he was going to leave, he wanted to at least look presentable.
>>"Don't call zem. I would wait if you want, but don't call eiser of zem. If you call, I am leaving."
That was not good. Not good at all.
"Okay I am not calling" she held up her hands. She didn't even have a cellphone with her. "Just sit down okay? I don't want you to fall if someting suddenly happens. Just sit and we will wait all right?"
So she sat, and watched him. He looked okay. Physically, anyway. She had no clue as to what was going on inside. She allowed him time to relax and compose himself. They were not going to be bothered for at least a little bit.
"You know I am older dan you, right?" she asked quietly. Of course he knew. Duh! But she couldn't think of any other way to breach the subject, and as he was apparently borrowing her powers... might as well talk about it.
*italics are spoken in Russian* Thanks to Siren for the sig and avi!
She said that she would not call. Jude hesitated to sit, but he did believe her. Maybe he just liked the fact that when he was standing and she was sitting, for once he was taller than her.
He looked at her.
She looked at him.
It didn't get any less awkward when they were both waiting for him to explode or something.
Eventually, Jude took a seat on the hard ground out of easy reach for either of them.
>"You know I am older dan you, right?"
"Physically." He was quick to answer. Like this was a conversation that he had imagined having and so he had the answer ready to go. "If zere was a way to catch up or to prove zat I am grown enough I would do it." He was regretting telling Svetlana. Things were easy between them before. Now there was this weirdness like she expected him to do something and she would have to fight him off.
"I know it's stupid. And impossible." He watched his leg bounce up and down to burn off some of that energy.
>>"Physically. If zere was a way to catch up or to prove zat I am grown enough I would do it. I know it's stupid. And impossible."
Svetlana smiled a bit. However awkward this whole situation was, Jude was still the same old (young) Jude, cute as ever.
"Impossible like de tings we do every day?" she chuckled "You are a mutant now, Jude, a very weird one too. You can not know what is impossible or not."
Still. Growing up overnight? That would be something to see...
"You don't need to do dat for me." she said "I like you as you are..."
She knew it was going to hurt Jude, but at least the hurt made sure he did not miss her point.
"I have a little sister, I left her back in Russia. She is about the same age as you. I miss her a lot."
You are like a little brother to me, she meant to say. But she didn't.
*italics are spoken in Russian* Thanks to Siren for the sig and avi!
Sooo... not impossible? He looked up at Svetty with suspicion coloring his features. She didn't mean that like he wanted her to mean that. Surely she didn't.
"You don't like me like I want you to like me. If I was grown up, you would."
>"I have a little sister..."
"Augh!" He flopped back onto the floor and the crunchy pillow squirted out from behind his back. "I don't want you to sink of me as your little sister!" He should just go before this got any worse, but if he was ever going to explode, this conversation would be the one to push him over the edge.
"I am going to find a fairy godsmother and she is going to make me OLD." That would show her.